Francisco J. Momaldi, the Robert F. Kennedy Visiting Professor at the Harvard Kennedy School, will give a talk entitled "The 2012 Venezuelan Election: What’s Next for Hugo Chávez, His Country and Latin America?" on Wednesday, Nov. 28, at 7 p.m. in Chapin 201.
Monaldi is a full professor at the Instituto de Estudios Superiores de Administracion (IESA) in Caracas, Venezuela. He is the co-founder and director of IESA's Center on Energy and the Environment. He is a leading scholar on the politics and economics of the oil industry in Latin America and developing countries. He holds a Ph.D. in political science (political economy) from Stanford University.
This event is sponsored by the Department of Political Science, with funding from the Lamont Fund, and it is free and open to the public.